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in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster.

nt of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A description of the grasses.

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show…

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

A description of the winds.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

ng animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

A description of flowers.

rom different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. [R.]

A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.

A systematic description of the arteries.

The description of joints.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

A description of baths.

To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. It beggared all description. Shak.